Tag Archives: Nuclear Family

Surf & Spell

As I mentioned last week, I don’t have kids. I’m sure some of the people out there on the internets who might read this do though. And it could be said that I am in fact a “kid at heart,” whatever my chronological age might be. So it shouldn’t be too much […]

Cool’s NOT Defined By Blog Updates?

It wasn’t billed as a mixtape like those profiled yesterday but Columbus, Ohio-based emcee/producer Blueprint’s Blueprint vs. Funkadelic project from earlier this Summer might as well have been one. Its underlying concept, building tracks on samples from Funkadelic songs, bordered on the sort of mashup-style shenanigans mixtapes are often made of these days. […]

Free Equals a Broke Emcee Squared

Over the years I’ve been a huge supporter of Brooklyn’s Nuclear Family both here on Blogarhythms and elsewhere. I’ve blogged about their projects dozens of times. Their music has provided the backbone of my radio playlists numerous times. I keep all of their albums — save the crew’s debut The New Singles, […]

Music To Survive a Robot Uprising To

So far this week’s class of Blogarhythms graduates has included a “keyboard band” that doesn’t play “robot music” and a couple of True-School Hip-Hop revivalists who added synthesizers to their arsenal without sounding like the latest retro-electro bandwagon jumpers. And although one of the latter asked us to “Do the Robot In Cyberspace,” their […]

“It’s pronounced New-cue-lar…” © Homer Simpson

I first heard Brooklyn-based Indie-Rap collective Nuclear Family (a.k.a. Nuk Fam) thanks to my homegirl Kate who happened to be handling radio-promo for their debut The New Singles EP at the time. My radio co-host Emeyesi and I loved it from jump, which is saying a lot because working in radio we hear a lot […]